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Israel
Pronounced /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.əl/
Rank in 2024
#279
Born in 2024
1,220
Peak year
2007 · #204
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:38 in 2024 (#3,923)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,220 boys were named Israel, about 1 in every 1,406.
- It peaked in 2007 with 1,936 babies, ranked #204.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 70,134 boys have been named Israel since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Israel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,200 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Silent: 1,403 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,500 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,561 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,104 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 24,557 babies, 0.78 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 18,423 babies, 0.85 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Israel, from Old English, borrowed from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”). In the Bible, it is said to be from the name יִשְׂרֶה אֵל (yisré 'él) given to Jacob in Genesis 32:29, after which his descendants came to be known as Israelites and their land as the "kingdom/land of Israel".
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.əl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Israel, CC BY-SA 4.0.